Nicest of 2024

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!

It's a cheery and bright episode to get you through the dark cold days of winter! ☃️ Your hosts (plus guest Joanna May) wrap up 2024 with a readout of their nicest things from the year—nicest games, nicest accomplishments, and nicest procrastinations. Plus, plans and projects for 2025, some soft resolutions, and a review of some exciting upcoming titles you're likely to see hit various storefronts in the next calendar year. A happy year's end to all!

• Cover image credit goes to Animal Crossing World.

  This year's selection of Nice Replays start next week. See you in 2025!

2024 Accomplishments

Mark

• Founded a 501(c)(3) organization, Nice Games Alliance.
• Got a new job, on a still unannounced game.
• Renewed the lease on the Noble Robot office

Stephen

• I made two movies! (Or at least I will have by the end of the year)
• Immense progress on Future Club game

Ellen

• My RSV game won multiple industry awards <3
• Hired Lydia
• Running out of plant room

Joanna

• Solved generalized serialization
• Palette generation too
• Lots of iterative things that were worked on last year
  

2024 "Nicest" Games

This is not a “best of 2024” or even a definitive list of our favorites. It’s just a few games we want to be nice to.

• Ellen
  • We Were Here series
  • Bonza
• Mark
  • Astro Bot
• Stephen
  • Dragon's Dogma II
  • UFO 50
  • Puzzmo
• ​​​​​​​Joanna
  • Helldivers II
  • Breath of the Wild

2025 Most Anticipated Games

• Ellen
  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
  • Winter Burrow
  • FragPunk
  • Borderlands 4
  • Rift of the Necrodancer...???
  • Lunar: Remastered Collection (for Eric)
• Mark
  • Civilization VII
  • Star Trek Ascendancy: The Final Frontier (the Gorn!)
  • The Switch 2
• Stephen
  • Dragon Dogma II DLC (I’m cheating I know)
  • Civilization VII
  • Honestly probably Switch 2 stuff, too
• Joanna
  • Paralives
    

2025 Resolutions

• Ellen: Finally put together a portfolio site!
• Mark:
  • Dreamsettler, again!
  • Unannounced project
  • Release Operators!
  • Get Nice Games Alliance some sponsors/donations!
• Stephen: Play more games! Do more stuff outside of my apartment.
• Joanna: Put out a bigger better game demo!